Azure Event Hub with examples – Step by Step
Today in this article we shall see how to create an Azure Event Hub with examples using simple and easy-to-understand steps.
We shall also see how to create and connect this Event Hub and publish some business events to this created Event programmatically and using CLI too.
Today in this article, we will cover below aspects,
To understand how to publish the data to Event Hub using C# .NET example, please visit the below article,
What is Event Hub and why to use it?
Azure Event Hubs is a streaming platform and event ingestion service in the Azure Cloud environment.
Event Hub provides a platform for seamless integration of data and various services within and outside of the Azure Cloud environment.
The Azure Event Hub Producer writes data to Microsoft Azure Event Hub. It also lets you select different destinations as needed.
Example–
If using Data Lake Storage, use the Azure Data Lake Storage as a destination.
To write to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, use the Azure IoT Hub as a Producer destination.
Prerequisites
Before you start, all you need is an account on the Azure portal with an Azure subscription.
Create a resource group
Sign in to the Azure portal.
In the left navigation, click Resource groups. Then click Create.
- Please Select a region for the resource group.
- Click on Review + Create.
Create Azure Event Hub namespace
Click on All services in the left menu, and select Event Hubs
Click on Add and create a New Event Hub, on Create Namespace windows please follow the below steps to configure,
- @1 Select the subscription
- @2 Select the resource group
- @3 Enter a name for the namespace.
- @4 Select a location for the namespace.
- @5 Choose the pricing tier (Basic or Standard).
- Finally, Click Review + Create at the bottom of the page.
You shall see the below screen for the deployment in progress!
Finally your namespace will available to view once you click on the “Go to resource“
Create an Azure event hub
Now since we already have a namespace, we can create an Event Hub.
On the Event Hubs Namespace page where we created namespace click on + Event Hubs
Once you click on the EventHub – It takes you to Create an event hub page.
Please provide the name of the event.
That’s All, you are all set to use your producer which will help you send the messages to this EventHub.
Let’s send the first message to the EventHub.
Here we shall first retrieve the connection string.
How to get a Connection string for the EventHub
Finally, you shall be able to monitor the messages that are pushed successfully to Hub as below,
To understand how to publish the data to Event Hub using .NET, please visit the below article,
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